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This is a teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in this smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers - Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C. W., the sometimes gangsta - and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him? "Stoner & Spaz" (9780744590555) was the winner of the 2003 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature. "STRAYS delivers in spades, offering readers a deceptively simple story that is rich with a gamut of levels to explore and contemplate." (Teenreads. com)" Ron Koertge is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Brimstone Journals and Stoner and Spaz (9780744590555). An avid movie buff, Ron lives in the house featured in John Carpenter's film Halloween. He teaches English at Vermont College in the USA.